Speira is a leading European aluminium recycling and rolling company, comprising a total of eleven recycling and rolling production facilities in Germany and Norway, ten European and overseas sales offices plus its own research and development centre.
The company recycles up to 650,000 tonnes of aluminium per year and produces around one million tonnes of advanced rolled products.
The plants include the joint venture Alunorf, the world’s largest aluminium rolling mill, and Grevenbroich, the world’s largest aluminium finishing plant in the world. With approximately 5,500 employees, Speira is a key partner to various blue-chip customers and supplies in the automotive, packaging, printing, engineering, building, and construction sectors.
Over the last decade, Speira has developed a significant amount of experience and knowledge about the use of aluminium in battery applications. Today Speira offers a broad range of products and solutions for the e-mobility sector including battery housing, connector plates and battery cathode foil.
Speira operations are built on over a century of aluminium recycling, rolling experience, and technical expertise for aluminium products and solutions.
The importance of aluminium
With its incomparable possibilities for shaping forms, aluminium unleashes the creativity of designers and engineers alike.
Its unique properties include the fact that it is lightweight and corrosion resistant, has good conductivity, high rigidity, and recycles easily and infinitely without any loss of quality. It’s no wonder aluminium has become the preferred material in an increasing number of industries.
Aluminium is highly versatile and offers endless opportunities to create exciting new products that make the way we live more sustainable.
Advancing a circular society
The company supports several initiatives to get even more aluminium products properly recycled after their functionality has ended.
To advance separate collection and aluminium recycling, Speira works in close partnership with its customers from food and beverage companies and with national and local authorities and stakeholders.
The amount of material for recycling is limited – in some applications aluminium products often have a lifespan of 20 years and more. Closing the material loop by further increasing recycling rates is the only way of making more scrap ready to substitute primary material.
In certain applications such as the aluminium beverage can, the lifecycle of the metal is much shorter. For a beverage can it is 60 to 90 days. As a result, the average recycling rate of aluminium beverage cans in Europe now stands at 76%.
Thanks to more innovative sorting and recycling technologies, the company expects increased recycling of used aluminium packaging in more and more countries, which it supports with technical expertise.
Recycling aluminium is a key element of Speira´s road to net zero. By 2045 – earlier than defined in the Paris Agreement – Speira aims to be fully decarbonised.
Partnerships to advance aluminium recycling
Speria collaborates with several partners across the value chain to understand and improve the lifecycle effects of aluminium products when they are ready to be recycled.
The partnerships conduct and support scientific lifecycle assessments to analyse the impact of aluminium in all phases of its service life.
The results are publicly communicated to spread the knowledge of how to advance aluminium recycling in a more sustainable way.
Production interests
- Cars;
- Beverage cans;
- Packaging;
- Marine, Offshore and transport;
- Building & Construction and
- Battery systems.
